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Frailty in Critical Care Medicine: A Review.
Anesthesia and analgesia - 1 Jun 2020
De Biasio Justin C, Mittel Aaron M, Mueller Ariel L, Ferrante Lauren E, Kim Dae H, Shaefi Shahzad
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Traditional approaches to clinical risk assessment utilize age as a marker of increased vulnerability to stress. Relatively recent advancements in the study of aging have led to the concept of the frailty syndrome, which represents a multidimensional state of depleted physiologic and psychosocial reserve and clinical vulnerability that is related to but variably present with advancing age. The frailty syndrome is...
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